Shoe-soles with wire



against the wire, when in the .Louis eoDDU, or BOSTON, MASSAGHUSETTS, Assiettes rfro Emma frown- SEND, `OF SAME PLAGF.

Letters Patent No. 97,190, dated Noce'mliefr 23, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT ll.`1\l' MACHI-NES FOR NAILING- SHOIEi-SOLES WITH WIRE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and makingpart of the same.

To all persons to Iwhom these presents may come Be it known `that I, LoUIs GoDDU, al citizen of the Dominion of -Canada, having resided in the United` States the year preceding, and made oath of' intention to become a citizen thereof, and being now a residentv of' Boston, of the count-y of Suffolk, andState of Massachusetts, have made a new and 'useful invention, vhaving reference t o the N ailing of Shoe-Soles, or various other Articles, with Wire; and I do hereby declare the same tobe fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, makingpart thereof'.

0f such drawings-` Y Figure l is a front elevation, and

Figure 2, a rear elevation of' the machinecontaining my invention. Figure 3 is a bottom view of it. Y Figure liis a transverse section and vertical section of it, taken through its movable cutter.

Figure-5 is 'a transverse' andvertieal section of' it, taken through the wirecarrier or transferrer.

'This machine, while in operation, is intended to he held in and actuated in part by one hand ofa person, *who, with a mallet or hammer in his other hand, from time to time, is to st rike a blow on the head of the nail-driver.

Preparatory to each nail heilig driven, the hand which may have hold of the machine also, is to feed or move it along a short distance on the sole to'h'e nailed.

The said hand also, after each of such movements, .to pnt in operation the mechanism for feeding the wire down into the carrier or ti'ansfi-n'rer.` In the drawings y A denotes the stock of thel machine. i Within thesaid stock is a .nail-driver, a, which extends dowu from a round shank, B, which, at top, is provided with a lieadfl). YThe. shank and the driver are to be so applied to the stoc-k as to be capable of being moved up and down rectilinearly therein. A slot, c, madethrough the shank, receives a pin, (l, extended through the stock', such slotand pin servingto determine the extent of'npward movement ofthe shank. There is a curved passage, c, made in the stock, for

the reception and convenience of' the miiling-wire f to the transferrer, shown at U.

VThere is also, within the shank, and so as to extend lpassage e, a feed-wheel, D, provided with a ratchet, y. i

A lever, E, pivoted to the stock at h, carries a springpawlor click, i, which engages with the toot-liedpe riphery of the ratchet.

-A bow-spring, K, applied to theleverand the stock, and arranged iny manner' as represented, serves to reverse the movement of the lever after any inward motion of it for the purpose of' actuating the feed-wheel.

The lever is formed with `two curved finger-rests, ll,

Vto receive the second and third fingers of the hand of a person, while it may be grasping the stock, the latter being hollowed ont, as shown atm on, to receive the fourth and fifth fingers while grasping it.

A bent lever, F, pivoted to the `stock at o, and arranged thereon in manner'as represented, has a stop or pin, p, extended at right angles from its shorter arm, and in rear ot' the upper part g ofthe upper fingerrest The longerarm of the said lever is a springcatoh, which may he slipped into either notch of a serrated rack, Gr, projected from the stock.

By means of the rack, the lever,` and the stop, the extent of back movement of the lover E may be determined, for the purpose of efiecting, bythe forward movementof'the lever, the propel' advance or feeding -l of the' wire.

As the nail-wire is moved fhrward, it passes into the y transferrer U, whose lower part, r/f, is tubular, to receive the wire. Zlhis transferrer is a lever, arranged fwithin, and pivoted` to the stock, its fulernrn being shown at Ir. The lever is moved in one direction by the nail-driver shank while descending, the reverse movement of the transfer-rer boingl ,effected by a spring, s, fixed to' the stock, and arranged, relatively to thetransferrer, in manner as exhihitedin the drawings. The lower end ofthe shank ofthe nail-driver is semispherical, as shown at t, for the purpose of actuating the transferrer, whose `nppcr arm is Vcam-shaped, as shown at y1l, to canse the transferrerto be nc'tnatedhy the shank.

l `urthermore, there is within the shank a stationary knife, n',to operate with a movable cutter or knife, fr, carriedv by alever, ll'. This lever is `arranged wit-hin and pivoted to the'shank, its f'ulcrum being shown at u'. The upper arm'of this lever is bevelled, as shown at a', to cause the Vlever to be moved in one`direction, (viz, such` as to advance its knife np to the stationary knife) by lthe nail-driver carrier during its descent. p

A spring, 1/projected from the stock, 'and against the'lever, serves to effect a reverse movement ofthe cutter-lever at the proper time or times.

To the nail-driver and the stock, a spring, z, is applied, its purpose being to raise the shank or carrier of' the driver after each descent fofit.

At the lower part of the stock, and projected therefrom, and formed in manner as represented in the drawings, is what may he termed the nose-piece, I.,

This, at its lower end, is to rest directly on the sole to be nailed, nn adjustable gauge, K, fastened to the stock, and arranged with the nose-piece, innnanner as shown in the drawings, serving, hy resting against the edgenof the soleyto determine the proper distance therefrom at which each ofthe nails is to he driven.

71th this machine, the nser,.hy moving the pawl- ,i

lever E more or less, byhis hand, can vary the length ofthe nails to be ont from the wire, and thus,` after 'a little practice-he may become so expertas to canse 'the sind me1 'sin consisting of the pawi i, the them to be cut of various lengths, as the varying thokratchet y, an feed-wheel D, arlangedin and apness of a sole may require, those for the shank ofthe plied to the and the wire pissage thereof, ns sole being lgenerally short er, and of varying lengths, ex lah ed. W

relatively `to those of the rest of the sole. When, Also, the comlinI however, the nails to he driven in any partoi' the sole ingr-lever F, and ra n of the stop p, and its adj ust-v G, with the stock A, and the are to be of one uniform hjngth,the lever E, prepnrnha id-level-E npr lieito the feedinge l :1r ism,.as Ysettoryto each severing of n nail from the Wire, may be for th. f y sllowedtondvztnce up to ts forward stop, shown at 12. Also, the zrrangelnert of the transf i. i G with the I'n the operationof this machine, .the nire, fter sto cklA and the shan i B of` Iehe nail-e river crrier, in having passed into the transferljen is next out by the manner so as tc l 3 moved in one dir 3c tion by the knife. Next, thepiece severed will be transferred to said slank, i 'hik 'l::.inling, as set f r1 h the movennd directly underneath the device, which, nextdement of said tran si in the opposite d rection being scending upon it, will force it into the sxlc. The eifectel bye spring, or its eqnivnlent. workman next tilts and moves the machine forward Als, the .ri-rm v a 1t of the movable knife-carrier the proper distance for another nail to be driveln'aftcx or leverH n ith tl e stack A and the sh :mk B of the which he, -by n downward blow on the head of the unil-driver carrier, 1i manner sons to bc movedin one ilriver-cnrrier, causes another advance ofthe wire, :nid direction by the en d shank while descending, as set :mother piece of it to bo removed from' thc rest and forth, the n1 )vement ofthe said knife-lever in the opdriven into the solo. positedirert on being effected by n spr ng, or its equiv- In the above-described mchine. nient. i I claim, as my invention, the following, viz z LOUIS GODDU. The arrangement, 'as' well as the combination, of Witnesses:

the handdever E, and its operative spring k, with the H, H. Emu,

stock A, und the mechanism for mii-'arming the wire, L. N. B/Imnnn.h 

